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Police Raid Moscow’s Leading Avant-Garde Theatre, Detain Director

THEATRE Posted: May 24, 2017 5:15 am

Kirill Serebrennikov, famous in Russia as both a stage director and a filmmaker, was taken into custody and held for interrogation following a raid of the Gogol Center (of which he’s artistic director), his apartment, and 15 other addresses. (He was released late in the day and said he was questioned as a witness.) Authorities claim that the issue is suspected embezzlement of state arts funding at the Gogol, but Serebrennikov is a well-known critic of the Kremlin’s policies on freedom of expression, LGBT rights, and Crimea, and several of the theatre’s more controversial stagings have been investigated for violating morals laws.

THEATRE Published: 05.24.17

Read the story in The Hollywood Reporter Published: 05.24.17

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